La vie de couple n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille ! Mussetdéclare que tous les hommes sont " menteurs, inconstants, faux,bavards, hypocrites, orgueilleux et l?ches ", et toutes les femmes" perfides, artificieuses, vaniteuses, curieuses et dépravées ".Sublime ou grotesque, le duo amoureux de ces deux êtres imparfaitsprend aussi des allures de duel... Dans une farce, une femme faitde son mari son esclave domestique et sexuel ; chez Shakespeare, lajalousie conduit Othello au crime passionnel ; mariés, lespersonnages de Harold Pinter se prêtent à un jeu de r?le danslequel chacun devient l'amant de l'autre. A travers les ?ges, surtous les tons et sur tous les modes, les couples se déclarent,s'aiment et se déchirent sur scène. Illustrée de nombreuses photosde mises en scène, l'anthologie précise les spécificités du textethé?tral et retrace l'évolution du genre à travers les siècles.

Organizations are more successful when they mold highly talented individuals into a cohesive group. But most talented people especially professionals hate to be managed. How to resolve this tension is the subject of this tightly focused, effective book by consultants McKenna (Herding Cats) and Maister (Practice What You Preach). Recognizing that all groups of professionals are different, the authors don't set off to create sweeping rules. Rather, they divide the task of leading groups of professionals into three parts what one must accomplish as the leader; how one wants to interact with individual members of the group; and how one wants to deal with the group as a whole and then offer concrete suggestions. A big part of this book's appeal is the authors' inherent understanding of how professionals resist overtly and otherwise being managed. Not surprisingly, McKenna and Maister spend a great deal of time explaining strategies for getting colleagues to agree to being led. They are particularly effective in ou

It is 1274 and in the fortified city of Acre, the last major stronghold of the Crusaders in Palestine, an epic conflict is beginning. Will Campbell is a Templar Knight, trained for war, but as a member of the mysterious group known as the Brethren, he is also a man of peace. After years of bloodshed the Brethren have helped create a truce between the Christians and Muslims. But there are those on both side for whom peace is not an option. As war looms, Will is torn between his oath as a Templar, his secret role in the Brethren and his duty to Elwen, the woman he loves but is forbidden to marry. Robyn Young is a compelling voice in historical fiction, writing in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Manda Scott.

For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca, for a cross-country odyssey charted by letters from her brother Joley, guiding them to his Massachusetts apple farm, where surprising self-discoveries await. Now Oliver, an expert at tracking humpback whales across vast oceans, will search for his wife across a continent -- and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.

ROBERT OLIVER, A RENOWNED PAINTER,has brutally attacked acanvas in the National Gallery of Art. From the confines of his hospital room,Oliver maintains a stubborn silence,'offering only the briefest explanation be-fore he stops speaking altogether: "I did it for her." But who is she? Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, prides himself on his abilityto make even a stone talk, but he gets nowhere with Oliver. Driven at first by pro-fessional curiosity, and then by a determination that disrupts his ordered, carefulworld, Marlow embarks on an unconventional pursuit of the answers his patientwon't provide, and on a journey into the lives of the women Oliver left behind. Richly told, beautifully imagined, The Swan Thieves takes us across cen-turies, from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from young love to lastlove. Elizabeth Kostova deftly explores the painter's universe--passion, creativity,secrets, madness and, with the gift for storytelling that made The Historianan international sensation, conju

Qu'importe que la cantatrice soit chauve puisqu'elle n'existepas ! Dans cette petite "anti-pièce", première oeuvredramatique de Ionesco, il n'est fait référence que deux fois à lacantatrice chauve, personnage dont on ne sait rien et quin'appara?t jamais. Il s'agit bien là d'un Nouveau Thé?tre, celuiqui donne naissance à des pièces sans héros, sans sacro-saintedivision en actes, sans action, sans intrigue, avec en guise dedénouement la quasi-répétition du début, et dont lestraditionnelles retrouvailles sont remplacées par une parodie dereconnaissance d'une invraisemblance ahurissante. Les personnages,tout droit sortis d'un manuel de langue, ne s'expriment que parclichés, disent une chose pour aussit?t affirmer son contraire,trouvent une jubilation idiote à employer proverbes et maximes touten les pervertissant sans même s'en apercevoir... Cependant, trèsvite, le langage s'"autonomise", se libère de toute contrainte, etl'on assiste avec plaisir au divorce du sens et du verbe. Il enré

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime. This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s, selling more than nine million copies, and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. It's a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American justice.

Première des guerres modernes, la guerre de 1914-1918 fut pourles hommes de la ?génération du feu? un effroyable traumatisme. Enmémoire de leurs milliers de camarades morts au front, ceux quirevinrent de l'enfer des tranchées voulurent témoigner de l'horreurdes combats. La littérature, après eux, ne devait plus jamais êtretout à fait la même... Le dossier de l'édition analyse les outilsde la propagande patriotique. Il présente des lettres de soldats,témoignages directs qui complètent l'anthologie, et propose desgrands récits de bataille (L'Iliade, La Chanson de Roland,?Waterloo? dans La Chartreuse de Parme) qui permettent d'étudierles représentations de la guerre dans la littérature.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

Un jeune notaire anglais, Jonathan Harker, est envoyé enTransylvanie pour rencontrer un client, le comte Dracula, nouveaupropriétaire d'un domaine à Londres. L'homme qu'il découvre est unecréature démoniaque, un mort vivant qui boit le sang de sesvictimes... Jonathan échappera-t-il au vampire ? Et quel sortattend Mina, sa douce fiancée ?

Translation of an erotic novel first published in 1686 -- describes the floating world of old Japan.

Jusqu'à ce jour, je n'ai jamais parlé de mes deux gar?ons. [...]Aujourd'hui que le temps presse, que la fin du monde est proche etque je suis de plus en plus biodégradable, j'ai décidé de leurécrire un livre. Pour qu'on ne les oublie pas, qu'il ne reste pasd'eux seulement une photo sur une carte d'invalidité. [...] Gr?ce àeux, j'ai eu des avantages sur les parents d'enfants normaux. Jen'ai pas eu de soucis avec leurs études ni leur orientationprofessionnelle. Nous n'avons pas eu à hésiter entre filièrescientifique et filière littéraire. Pas eu à nous inquiéter desavoir ce qu'ils feraient plus tard, on a su rapidement que ceserait : rien. J'espère quand même que, mises bout à bout, toutesleurs petites joies auront rendu le séjour supportable. Jean-LouisFournier.

Jack Reacher knows that suicide bombers are easy to identifyfrom a list of twelve points. At two o'clock at night in the subwayin New York he realized at once: its direct neighbor meets allpoints of the list-so begins the new action thriller by LeeChild

By all outward appearances, the Rubins are the perfect family:brilliant, successful, enviably close-knit. Then an event of greatjoy and celebration -- the marriage of the eldest son -- urns tochaos when the groom jilts his bride and runs off with a marriedwoman. It's a shock to everyone in their small Jewish community,most of all to matriarch Claudia, a successful rabbi. In the wakeof this one defiant act, the floodgates to a ruinous wave of gossipare opened, and the secrets that the Rubins have been keeping fromone another begin to spill forth. All four adult Rubin children andtheir parents ultimately must come to terms with their own innerdesires and identities. When We Were Bad gives a warm, poignant,and honest portrayal of a family in crisis, in love, in denial,and, ultimately, in luck.

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf

Quieter than The Sixteen Pleasures, Philosophy Made Simple is almost—but not quite—as fine a novel. Although it touches on relationships between parents and children, farming, friendship, and life events, the overarching theme speaks to how philosophical beliefs play out in daily life. Hellenga juxtaposes the history of philosophy, from Plato to Kant, with Rudy's search for meaning. This approach, given the seriocomic tone of the novel, seemed artificial to a few critics, smart to some, and oversimplified to others. Despite this divide and a few awkward subplots, Philosophy Made Simple—a poignant fable, really—will charm readers. Copyright 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these American heroes.

Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait! A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to France to pursue their dream of restoring an old barn near Nimes. That dream then became much, much bigger for, last October, they moved with their two young children, Ben's 76 year-old mother and his brother, into a run-down zoo on the edge of Dartmoor which they had bought, and found themselves responsible for 200 animals including four huge tigers, lions, pumas, three massive bears, a tapir and a wolf pack. Ben's new extended family now included: Solomon, an African lion and scourge of the local golf course; Zak, the rickety Alpha wolf, a broadly benevolent dictator clinging to power; Ronnie, a Brazilian tapir, easily capable of killing a man, but hopelessly soppy; and Sovereign, a jaguar who is also a would-be ninja, and has devised a long term escape plan and im

For countless readers, one of life’s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside London’s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed. A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the man’s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk can’t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the woman’s somber beauty, he is impelled to try. Mary Havilla

There's a caste system even in murder.Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession. In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist; a stone-age tribesman; a Bollywood sex symbol; a mobile phone thief; and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Inspired by actual events, Vikas Swarup's eagerly awaited second novel is both a riveting page turner and an insightful peek into the heart and soul of contemporary India.

Kate Morton's second novel is a rich and satisfying mystery set in England and Australia of a woman's search for her identity.

Un matin, la cantatrice Sophia Siméonidis découvre, dans sonjardin, un arbre qu'elle ne conna?t pas. Un hêtre. Qui l'a plantélà ? Pourquoi ? Pierre, son mari, n'en a que faire. Mais lacantatrice, elle, s'inquiète, en perd le sommeil, finit pardemander à ses voisins, trois jeunes types un peu déjantés, decreuser sous l'arbre, pour voir si... Quelques semaines plus tard,Sophia dispara?t tandis qu'on découvre un cadavre calciné. Est-cele sien ? La police enquête. Les voisins aussi. Sophia, ilsl'aimaient bien. L'étrange apparition du hêtre n'en devient queplus énigmatique. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuiséeou non disponible de ce titre.